• DocumentCode
    3395547
  • Title

    Using Competitive Analysis to get the competitive advantage

  • Author

    Farel, Doug ; Silverman, Mike

  • Author_Institution
    Ops A La Carte, LLC, Saratoga, CA
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    28-31 Jan. 2008
  • Firstpage
    171
  • Lastpage
    174
  • Abstract
    When introducing a product into a new market, determining the current market players´ reliability performance may lead to a competitive advantage. Or, if your competition is using reliability as a marketing lead, does your product match their performance or do they have the advantage? Using Competitive Analysis, we can determine areas of strength as well as areas of weakness so that we can develop a plan for reliability improvement. Competitive Analysis often uses tools such as Reliability Predictions, Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEAs) and Highly Accelerated Life Tests (HALTs) to compare your product with that of your competition.
  • Keywords
    failure analysis; life testing; marketing; reliability; accelerated life tests; failure modes-and-effects analyses; marketing; product competitive analysis; reliability performance; Design engineering; Failure analysis; Life estimation; Life testing; Manufacturing; Performance analysis; Production; Prototypes; Reliability engineering; Robustness; Competitive Analysis; HALT; Teardown Analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 2008. RAMS 2008. Annual
  • Conference_Location
    Las Vegas, NV
  • ISSN
    0149-144X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1460-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0149-144X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RAMS.2008.4925790
  • Filename
    4925790